Altum, Inc., a leading SaaS platform for research grants management, today announced that Kevin Fliess has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

The Lupus Research Alliance, a Proposal Central customer, recently published findings that support further development by several companies of potential new lupus treatments.

Altum is looking forward to the new partnership with National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

An exciting and promising breakthrough for the treatment of ALS is now in clinical trials. The ALS Foundation and I AM ALS have petitioned the FDA to make the treatment available as soon as possible.

Altum unveiled a new and important initiative for the research community called Open.  Open is a mindset and a belief that to truly create change, we must break down the walls and silos that have hindered innovation for centuries. Altum’s research management platform, ProposalCentral, and the power of the research analytics contained therein, is a true game changer for research organizations.

This is it! For months, you’ve contributed your time and energy, donated, raised money and maybe even shaved your head. And today that all culminates in the largest set of grants St. Baldrick’s makes all year.

Altum is pleased to announce that ProposalCentral has been recognized by ORCID as the first certified funder platform. This is the culmination of years of investment and partnership among Altum, ORCID, and the research funders using ProposalCentral.

Steve was nominated for participation in the program by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, New York, NY. As a consumer reviewer, he was a full voting member, (along with prominent scientists) at meetings to help determine how the $ 300.000 million appropriated by Congress for Fiscal Year 2017 will be spent on PRMRP research covering 48 topic areas.

Altum committed today to helping fund the Research Organization Registry – a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. Maria Gould, product manager at California Digital Library and ROR project said, “ROR is grateful for the support received from Altum, which will enable us to further develop and sustain the registry in line with community needs.”